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The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-29

Mr. Dougherty has secured the passage
of the bill through the House which au-
thorizes the return to the State Of the
sums paid to her troops in the service of
the United States during the Seminole
war. The claim. with accrued interest,
amounts to 100000. 1t now rests with
Senator Call To- york it through the Sem
ate, and it is a loss as we'll as shame
that Senator Jones is not at the capital
to second his efforts. Ii there is still any
remnant of his conscience remaining, he
must now hasten to Washington and
occupy the seat from which he has been
so long absent. Mr.. Dougherty has done
his own part nobly, and the congratula-
tions of his friends are mingled with a
glow of personal pride, justified by their
own interest in his success. And Sena
tor Call has already done 80 much in the
same connection that we have no fear of
IA relaxation of effort now.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-29
Enough Is Enough.

The Board of Governors of the Board
of Trade yesterday decided not to appoint
Chas. III. Jones as delegate of the Board
to visit Washington in relation To our
public works. They could do no less.
Jones has been convicted by absolute and
conclusive evidence of being a willful
and malicious liar, by sworn testimony.
by the Morning Nelrs, by General g..
w. Bentley, by the Palatka News, by
the Tallahassee F2orididH, and by the
score of leading citizens of Palatka and
Sanford, who signed a written statement
to that effect. The members of the
Board of Trade, with rare exceptions,
have got done with making representa-
tIves of that sort of cattle. and the Board
of Governors are not unaware of that
fact.-JdcksonUiHe Nelrs.
Yes, but when dog is going down hill
with failure" tackled to his tail, we
think it is charity to leave him undis-
turbed. Let's quit kicking him.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-29
Compilations of Cincinnati women.

Cincinnati women have perfect complex
ions In accounting for the unusual fair
ness Clubnan there said: 1t NAV be that
our proximity To Kentucky has something To
do with the matter You see CovingtOn Is
only across the river, and we are able to i'm
port handsome women without any trouble.
But OHIO l. not indebted tn Kentucky alone
for the beauty of her women. She is the
oldest of what were once termed the new
western states Some OF the best and buest
of New England blood came here in early
days This has been improved from year TO
year until you see the result before YOU
IL * certainly wonderful how Cincinnati
women can keep or preserve such clear and
brilliant compilations in such city The
rolling mills and faNories ill the air with
black smoke that even the sun Is ol>cured.
The SCOT from the soft coal smoke finds its
way into the houses through every open win
dow and door The waiter at your hotel
covers up the mouth of YOUR hottI, in order
To keep cut this all prevailing ~oot. Ladies
when ont upon the street. or even at home
are obliged To exercise great care to avoid
touching their faces with their hands or
handkeTChiefS. The presence of a biz black
smooth ON a woman, face l. the cunumoneSt
kind of sight, hut l. not conducive to per
Sonal heuutv.-New York World
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-29

Lawyers believe that the best anti
dote for a bad law ia it's rigid enforce
ment; the people will then insist on its
repeal in such thunder tones that the
Legislature must heed. On the same
principle the chemists are making war
obnoxious by insuring the speedy annihi
latIon of all who engage in that Amuse
ment sacred to rulers, and the latest re-
suits seem to promise success in this par
ticular branch of industry. Heretofore
the discovery of ultra-powerful ex-
plosives amounted to little practical eff
feet because even the most massive guns
crumbled under the efft cts of the explo-
sion. Now, however, it is claimed that
a new metal has been found whose
strength is many times greater than that
of steel and sufficient to admit of the use
of gun cotton, dynamite or melinite.
We are told that it is manufactured from
clay and is cheap, or we should think it
had been discovered in Jones cheek,
where, of course, it would cost somebody
dear
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-29
N 0 t
PALATkA
Water Works

HE PALATKA WATER WORKS l. PRE-
PARED 10 receive applications for Pure Water
for Domestic, Manufacturing. ana other pur-
poses, along the lines of its street mains in
the city of Paatk and the town ot Palatka
Heights, and to lay service pipes from said
mains 10 the line of the streets near the
h ousos and other places where IL is 10 be used
The water Will he furnished i'm accordance
with the RATES. Rules. aud Regulations" of
the company, 10 which careful attention is in
Vitod, and will probably bc ready FOR usr
early in March next
Ordinary serNiC" pipes will be of patent ell
amelod wrought iron, or of galvanized iron, or
three quarters of AN inch bore, aud will he
laid in accordance with sections and 3 of the
Rules ana Regulations. They win be laid in
eeiy.d; hence persons recurring the water AT
an early date should make their applications
promptly.
plan Of the street pipes mHy he seen NJ
the office OF the phlatkn Water works. in
Prices Block, where copies OF the Rates,
Rules and Regulations nay be- obtained. aud
where applications viii Ice received every
afternoon from 2:30 to 4 O'Clock. except sun
day.
Cs Parties wdHtiHg the Water must
bear in mint mat application can be-
mddc only ~ personally subscribing 10
tie "Appiicdfion Book" ofHo CompdnH
PALATKA wATFR-wORKs.
by wM WHEELER. Constructing Engineer.
pulAtka. January %. Iss1. jala-lmo
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-29

Mr.. Frank III. Brown, one of the
originators of the Crescent City gazette,
has again become interested in its pub
LEGATION, and we are sincerely glad to
welcome him again into the ranks of
the fraternity, Messrs. Maull & Brown
were two Florida boys, who began with
a hf ndful of type and a hand press
which had already done good service in
Putnam county. They gradually en-
larged their supply of material and soon
began the publication of the Gazette,
which was directly recognized as boon
to the Fruitland peninsula, and one OF
the bold"st and truest of our exchanges
These young gentlemen have a future
before them of " hich their friends will vet
be proud, and We are PANIED to see that
they threaten to remove from Crescent
City for lack of support. If our friends
of the peninsula are wise, every effort
will be made to retain them; their skill
full hands, brave hearts, and ready brains
will make them valuable anywhere, but
their own section should appreciate
them so highly that a change would not
be desirable.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-29
Coming Round.

Says the Times Union: Fortunately,
Florida has within herself all the re
sources of first class boom, being no
longer dependent upon Transient tourist
travel. Ii is the staple products of the
soil or mines that build up and enrich a
commonwealth, and to increase these we
must take the requisite steps to bring in
more permanent settlers Now this is
just what we told our contemporary
some weeks ago, and it might as well
have accepted what we SAID when we
wrote it, and he could have kept up with
the Florida news. Our article, showing
what our barren sand" could be made
to produce, has been extensively copied.
and the T-U. has now accepted it's
teaching, as it had to acknowledge that
"Palatka was satisfied" with the j., T.
x n. W., after it had asserted that
Gen. Bentley and his associates were
abhorred." How long since our esteemed
contemporary was asserting that Cook,
and Ebbitts, and the World Tourist
Company. and others of its fraternity,
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-29
PALATKA. FLA. JAN. 30, 1887.

The negro has now become so much
of "a missing power" in the politics of
this State, that rivals accuse each other
of ''monkeying" with him as if 1t were
a great crime. 1t should have been just
as much of crime in the past as in the
present, but some good people will not be-
Iieve a storm is upon them till they hear
the thunder. Don Mcleod, of the Tdtld-
F1orididn, may afford to smile at the
accusation with safe conscience, be
cause ir is only the truth that hurts.
But those to whom the truth will be ter
rible can soon begin to tremble in their
boota
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-29
WHATS IN 4 NAME;
Even the sound is of Consequence-Soms
Names Fatal to Success.


Life with "A good number is a struggle at
the best, and the success that attends il
influenced more than people sometimes think
by the name we bear Even the sound of a
name Is of consequence. Harsh names, -
says Isaac Disrael, will have, in spite of
all our philosophy, a painful and ludicrous
effect on our ear and our association. 1t is
vexatious that the softneSs of delicious vowel
or the rugge,lness of memorable cOnsonant
should at all he connected with mans hap
piness even have an influence on his fort
une. -
Some names, indeed, are almost fatal to
success; they simply suggest jokes and en-
courage familiarity. \ man has no hesita-
ton in proving by thumps upon your back
how he esteemS your merit If you are called
Trigger, or Tapp. or Trundle, Littleboy,
but he would hardly venture on it We're you
a more aristOcratic Montgomery, or Gas
cOigne. For man 10 inherit an absurd or
insignificant name is 10 have stone tied
round his neck in childhood to keep all his
life in the depths Of obscurity. 1t would be
difficult To find a famous character in litera-
-tUre, art or anything else with surname at
least approaching in character to say, Tooth
aches, or Bang, or Baby. Who could fancy
a Squib or a Gabble visited at any time by
the Inspirations of genius: John Wilkes ex-
pressed this idea once in conversation with
DIR. johnson. They were speaking of
Elkenah Settle, the last of the city poets.
There Il something in names, said Wilkes,
(which one cannot help feeling. Now
Elkenah Settle sounds queer: who can ex
pect much from that namez We should have
no hesitation To give it for John Dryden in
preference to Elkenah Settle from the names
only, without knowing their different
merits -
Considerations such "a these, not to speak
of testanCntary mJunctions and conditions
attached To deeds of entail, have induced
people from time 10 time 10 change their
names. The world being a. it Is, and man ;
instinct leading him To fasten on and worry
the ridiculous, it is often a sensible proceed
ing. Cuthbert is made tn take the place of
Cuddy; McAlpine of Halfpenny: Belcome
of Bullock; De Winton of wilkins, and
Ephraim Bug Is transformed into the aristo-
cratic Howard.-Lesure Hour.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-29

Thomas W. Knox, of the New York
Herald, did not accompany the movements
against Forts Henry and DOnelSon He ac
companied Gen Curtis in his chase after
Price from Springfield Mo, into Arkansas.
where in due season, after much marching,
skirmishing. countermarching, maneuver-
ing, advancing and retreating. there Oc-
CURED the bloody, long contested and de
cisive battle of Pea Ridge There were but
two correspondents with the Federal army =
Knox and FayaI of The St Louis Democrat
These two followed the Federal columns for
several weeks; they underwent extraordinary
har,lships they witnessed the final battle and
then started for 81. Louis, writing their let
tiers as they travelled They had to travel
on horseback for distance of nearly or
quite 200 miles befOra reaching the railway
at ROlla. The two correspondents. knowing
that they he only newspaper represen-
tatives in the field We're reasonably happy
Being from widely separated towns, there
was no rivalry between them. and they
strengthened each Others letters by a free
Interchange OF facts 50 that their accounts
We're probably near perfect as product
of the kind could be.
Filled with satisfaction at the certainty of
having the only accounts and of being, the
first 10 give the record Of the march and bat
ties 10 the public, they reached st Louis
and found a New York Tribune that had ar
rived the same morning and which contained
a full page account of the battle of Pea
Ridge. Fancy the situation of these two
men who had travelled hundreds of miles had
suffered all possible har,lships. had witnessed
the battle. and who knew that no other cor
respondent had been on the ground, Ii was
the most cruel event of the war far as it
related To the experiences of the correspond
ents- Polinto' in Chicago Times.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-29
THE DAILY NEWS.

The DAILY NEWS is published every morn
ing, except Monday, and delivered by carriers
IN the city or mailed postage free, for so cents
4 month, SI50 for three months, $3.50 for six
months, s. per annum-
THE WEEKLY NEWS is an SPACE 66-column
paper published every Friday, containing
all the news of the week, local and general. IL
is the largest and handsomest weekly paper
published in Florida, and will be mailed post
are free for 81 year, or 80 cents Tor six
months. Specimen copies free to any address.
Local advertisements 20 cents per line for
6rst insertion and 10 cents per line for each adj
ditioual Insertion Special notices 10 cents per
line. Reduced rates ON continued advertise
ments.
All advertising bills become due pro rata
every month. Local advertisements due at
tue c expiration OF the tims for which they arr
serted.
All remittances should be made by express,
money order rreg'ztered letter
Address, THE. NEWS,
PALATkA. FLORIDA.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-29

must be propitiated or Florida was
ruined: Perhaps it will come entirely
round now and take back, as in decency
it should, everything it has said since
the election of Dougherty. Those whom
the gods would destroy they first make
mad, and the countenance OF our candi-
date lent Jones an Importance that has
turned his brain. Let him realize who
and what he ID and all may vet go well.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-29
Dan.er in New i.nU-s-.

New houses are liable To be damp from
the evaporation from the plaster and NOR
tar, which contains large amount IF
water. \ Spanish proverb says Of new
houses: The first wear for Your enemies,
the second year for your friends. and the
third you may live there yourselves" This
tells the whole story. Again, cellar air is
apt To be unwholt~omc: and this j. another
TtasOn why Basement rooms are bad. II is
very unwi>e To store vegetables in cellars
until they decay Brooklyn Eagla
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-29
TaIlahaSSeaQ.

The Ocala Free Pess raps Palatka, of
whom she is jealous, thusly The sal
walton army, which was at Palatka last
week, made no converts. The long
haired man who managed the army, said
the reason for this was that the devil was
perfectly satisfied with the Palatkans.
The salvation army folded Its tent and
left the place in disgust
For which radiance we are truly
thankful
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-29
BLOODY SHIRT SCARE.
Mr.. Coke Shows Up the Texas
Scheme


Scheme.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.-The Senate to-
day proceeded to consideration of the
resolution reported yesterday by Mr..
Hoar, instructing the Committee on
Privileges and Elections to investigate
the allegations made by three residents
of Washington county, Tex, as TO ,heir
being driven from their homes, com
PEELED to- abandon their property and
deprived of the right of suffrage in the
county.
MIR. Coke opposed the resolution. He
was not adverse, nor was the State of
Texas, to an investigation of charges
properly made against the State involv-
ing a subject over which Congress had
jurisdiction, but he protested that the
proposed investigation was into sub
ject not within the jurisdiction of Con
greSS.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-29

There l. PERHAPS no more useful article
in the kitchen than old newspapers, there
fore it il well to keep drawer for them:
they are convenient for covering the shelves
TO polish silver. tInware, glass and the
stove. when broiiing meat spread them on
the floor tn prevent the drippings from the
meat spOtting the floor: they are also con-
venient for starting the fire, to tack on the
wall. To cover things. and in very many ways
prove exceeding useful Chicago Times.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-29
Parker'S lnterlaChen Dye Works

\ IL hlN1s OF LADIES SILK AND
"oolten Dresses Dyed and Cleaned with
out tipping Gent-emeE'S Clothing clean,
anu Dyed IN the most perfect manner Also
rinh9 ana Table Covers, Lam brequins etc.
and vicinity, Will give you iufol mai ion i'm re.
saf" =" Ut ces. ere. delG-IS
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-29
Maverick National Bank,
BOSTON,. MASS.

Accounts of Banks, Bankers ana Corpor-
atlOns solicited.
our facilities for COLLECTIONS are excel
lent and We re-dIscouut for Banks when bal
ances Wdrrs mt II.
Boston is a Reserve City. nd balances with
us from Banks mot located in other Reserve
Cities count reserve.
We draw our own EXCHANGE or IOndou spd
the Continent, and u abe Cable transfers and
place money 10y telegraph throughout the
United States and Canada
Government Bonds bought and sold and
Exchanges in Washington made for banks
without extra charge.
We have "A market for prime first-class In
NestntHt Securities, and invite proI osa j.
from states, Counties and Cities " hen issuing
bonds.
We do gene raj banking business, and in
vlte corr e-pondcnce.
ASA Il. POTTER. President.
JOS. w. WORK. Cashier.
oC3i-wSSa6m
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-29

Plat, Sabin. Sawyer, Sewell, Sherman,
Spooner, Teller, Williams and Wilson of
Iowa-31.
NAYS-Messrs. Beck, Berry, Black
burn, Brown, Call, Coke, Colquitt. Eus-
tbs, George, Gibson, German, Gray,
Hampton, Harris, Jones of Arkansas,
Kenna. Mcpherson, Morgan, Payne,
Pugh, Ransom, salisbury, Vance, Vest
WalthaIl and Whitthorne-26.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-29
Notice.

MEET ING OFTHE PALAT-
l kA Water works will be held az the office
of the con pAny, Prices Block, palatka, Pin,
on MONDAY. February IL. 1857, al II o'clock
a. IN, for the choice of officers Ton the ensuing
year. Also 10 sec II the company viii vote 10
Increase the nun bcr OF Directors from i've 10
seven. AlEo To transact any Other buHin"fH
" hirh may ~ & purlS come botUT" the meet inP f..
ELBt ri WHFl LhR eec'y.
Boston. Mass, January -, lSSs.
ta2g 3tsaSfel3
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-29

hR0IsTERED AT THE PALATKA POST OTriCn
AS SECOSD-CLAss MAIL MATrER-
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-29
4 Clean Newspaper.

Occasionally. when We discover a journal
that has too much self respect to cater To the
vicious tastes of readers are almost sure
10 find another proof Of the axiom that the
good die young" That paper can he too
clean | have no doubt now. though there
was a time when | thought differently. In
the innocence of youth once edited a paper.
the columns of which were never b,Smirched
by an item that would displea>e the most
prudiSh and fastidious taste. Even now,
with more years of experience. | will not
admit that II was a dry paper. for know
that II was extensively read, widely quoted
and often praised. Ii had a good circulation
among the best people, but to our requests
for advertisements the local merchants said.
''H our paper Is too decent; ii circulates only
among the most intelligent people and they
are not the ones are fishing for. Don't
be so high toned-make your paper to suit
the masses, the riff -ratf-everybod y-and
you'll make money
l needed not the merchants advice. and
that paper Is now in heaven. William Regi-
maid Ream in The Journalist
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-29
NOTHING MORE IN TT.

That was all there was in it. He had
received to-day telegram from ID. G..
Giddings, of Brenham. formerly a rep
resentatiye in Congress from Texas, stat
ing that the three petitioners We're of the
worst type of scalawags; that they had
been mainly instrumental in stirring
up strife between the races and were
charged with instigating the murder re-
ferred to (of a man named Bolton that
they We're not driven from their homes.
nor We're their lives threatened, but that
their own guilty consciences had caused
them to leave the county for the county's
good.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-29

Il see that one of the new rules Of tho
national game provides that where a batsman
is hit by pitched ball he Is given his base
Now. what Is 20 prevent a man getting hit
on purpose 10 take his baSe:'' Have you
ever been hit by pitched BALI ''NeverI"
Il thought not Chicago Rambler
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-29
An UNTRTTH.

=
Mr.. HOar re-asserted his statement.
Mr.. Salisbury protested against the
Committee on Privileges and Elections
being made the dumping ground for
every scalawag who chose TO go there
and make charges against his neighbors.
Mr.. Edmunds advocated the resolu-
ton.
Mr.. Eustis opposed it as a waving
of the bloody shirt a little in advance
of the usual season" Ii was simply a
proposition to make political capital.
Messrs. Hawley and Evarts advocated
the resolution.
Mr.. Salisbury offered an amendment
requiring the investigation 10 be conduct
ed in Washington county. Tex.
Mr.. Hoar opposed the amendment. The
question should be left to the discretion
and judgment of the committee.
The amendment was rejected by vote
of % yeas to 81 nays.
Mr.. Call opposed the resolution as an
attack on the very life Of the government
and American institutions.
THE RESOLUTION ADOPTED.
= vote was taken and the resolution
was adopted by a vote of 81 yeas TO %
navs. as follows:
YEAs-Messrs. Aldrich, Blair. Bowen,
Chase, Cheney, Conger, Cullom, Ed
munds, Evarts. Farwell, FRYE. Hale,
Hawley. Hoar, Ingalls,, Jones of Neva-
da, Mcmillan, Malone. Henderson. Mil
Ter. Mitchell of Pennsylvania, Morrill,,
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-29
AN INJUSTICE TO TEXAS.

He submitted that the Senate should
not adopt the resolution, because to do
so would be to allowthe fan name of one
Of the States of the Union to be aspersed
without testimony. 1t would be an in
Justice which should not be tolerated In
the Senate.
Mr.. Hoar defended and advocated the
resolution. As TO the statement that
colored men had killed a peaceful and
respectable white Democrat, who had
given no otfense, was not a probable
state ment; such things did not occur in
Texas or elsewhere. The fact was that
the man who was killed was disguised as
kuklux.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-29
A STATE AUTONOMY.

The State of Texas had State auton-
omy. Her constitution and laws Were
in full force and operation. She could
redress all grievances, personal or other
wise, occurring within her borders.
The subject was one peculiarly within
the jurisdiction of the State, and the
resolution was an intermeddling with
something belonging solely to- the State
and outside of the jurisdiction of the
general government.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-29

He gave a history of the case to the
effect that a respectable white Demo-
crat had been shot by cOlored man at
the polls near Brenham, Tex that three
colored men had been arrested and paced
in Jail charged With that crime: that a
mob had taken them out of j. ali and
hanged them. and that the three petit
titioners, Hack worth, Moore and
Schultze, who had been prominent
in influencing and deluding the negro
population there, had supposed their
lives to be in danger and had fled from
the country